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Cloudinary, Piwigo, Dash, ResourceSpace

Side by side on what we have verified on each vendor’s own pages. Where a fact was not checked, the table says so rather than leaving a blank that reads as “no”.

What decides it · Runs on your own servers

If the files genuinely cannot leave your infrastructure, this is not a close race — the platforms marked No below should not be on the call at all.

Cloudinary

No

Piwigo

Yes

Dash

No

ResourceSpace

Yes

Everything else

Cloudinary
Piwigo
Dash
ResourceSpace
Verdict
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Price published
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Billed on
Credits: one credit is 1,000 transformations, or 1 GB of storage, or 1 GB of video bandwidth
Flat price per account by storage; users are unlimited
Flat price per account; users are unlimited, tier set by storage and downloads
Self-hosted: no licence fee. Hosted: a user ceiling per tier
Deployment
Cloud
On-premise, Cloud
Cloud
Cloud, On-premise
Free plan
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Free trial
Yes
Yes
No
No
Transparency index
60%
100%
60%
60%
Most common complaint
Prices are published for the API but not for the DAM, so the product being compared with a DAM still has no price
A ten per cent price rise is announced for 1 September 2026
The tier is capped by download count as well as volume, which is a less familiar unit to budget against
The free route is genuinely free of licence fees but moves hosting, upgrades and support onto you

“Not checked” means exactly that: we have not verified it, not that the platform lacks it. Every other value was read off the vendor’s own pages on the date shown on each platform page.

What to ask on the demo

One question per platform, drawn from what actually goes wrong with it — not a generic checklist. Vendors run the demo; this hands the agenda back to you.

Cloudinary Prices are published for the API but not for the DAM, so the product being compared with a DAM still has no price — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Piwigo A ten per cent price rise is announced for 1 September 2026 — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Dash The tier is capped by download count as well as volume, which is a less familiar unit to budget against — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
ResourceSpace The free route is genuinely free of licence fees but moves hosting, upgrades and support onto you — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

No email required — the page prints as it stands.